The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
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... true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
... true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
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... true delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though ...
... true delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though ...
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... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
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... true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon man as a microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
... true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon man as a microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
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